Though they seldom come out of their houses, except under permissive sanction, yet their stock of gossipis almost inexhaustible.
The introduction of this art of tasteful production has, in a great measure, superseded the idle, unprofitable gossip of the day, driving away ennui and slothfulness at the same time.
Whenever he laid down his knife and fork he would throw himself back and start retailing in a light tone some Parisian gossip about prominent people.
The gossip of the Legitimist circles appreciated those favours with smiling indulgence.
But the gossip didn’t stop, and the name stuck, too, since it conveyed a very certain and very significant sort of fact, and of course the Venetian episode was talked about in the houses frequented by my mother.
This is mere gossip of the gutter and I am surprised at you, who really know nothing about it—” But the disgusting animal had fallen into a brown study.
Of course her movements are commented on in the most exclusive drawing-rooms and also in other places, also exclusive, but where the gossip takes on another tone.
We derive the subjoined pleasant gossip from a young and gifted American lady, at present resident in the French metropolis.
He was for passing us with no more than a jerk of the head, but M'Iver and I between us took up the mouth of the lane, and as John seemed to smile on him like one with gossip to exchange, he was bound to stop.
An infinite amount of gossip goes into diaries about men and women that would not stand the test of a moment's contemporary publication.
The result is column after column of short paragraphs of gossip and trivialities, chips, chips, chips.
There is no limit to the various intelligence and gossip that our complex life offers--no paper is big enough to contain it; no reader has time enough to read it.
He seldom retailed a bit of gossip for its own sake; when he did so he had a purpose.
Wherever Rattenden turned, a bit of gossip met his ear.
The Duchess of Graatli wrote mere gossip from Milan.
I don't know; it may be,' said the major, imagining that Weisspriess demanded some stronger flavours of gossip in his talk.
So Thankful was spared the gossip and questioning concerning the snoring ghost in the back bedroom.
Emily came through thegossip mill ground fine, but with surprisingly little chaff.
Bailey was the more important and respected at that time, for Samuel speculated in stocks a good deal and there were seasons when he was so near bankruptcy that gossip declared he could not pass the poorhouse without shivering.
If it had not been for his brother Bailey, so that same gossip affirmed, he would most assuredly have gone under, but Bailey lent him money and helped him in many ways.
Then she recounts a surprising cure performed by a certain apothecary, and appeals to the testimony of the waiting-woman, who being the gossip of his wife, confirms the evidence, and corroborates the proposal.
She said: "Mr Wentworth is a great friend of ours, and I think I would rather not hear any gossip about him.
Mr Wentworth himself laughed when the gossip reached his ears.
These were eventful days in Grange Lane, when gossip was not nearly rapid enough to follow the march of events.
It was a year for gossip anyway, for the War of the Revolution was near its close.
One morning the patrons of the inn had a bit to gossip about.
As soon as she was gone, Bruce proceeded to make himself agreeable to Tibbie by retailing all the bits of gossip he could think of.
At a quarter past eleven Mrs. Preedy, somewhat later than her wont, bustled out of her house for her nightly gossip with Mrs. Beale.
The Oaks is a rendezvous where we see each other at times; we meet occasionally in Biffut; but church is the principal meeting-house on the island, of course, and all the gossip of the week is fully aired on Sunday.
This had been for some time the favourite topic of gossip in Lancia.
Further gossip has informed me, whether truly or falsely I am not in a position to judge, that M.
The gossip of the day spoke of dreadful scenes between the members of the Imperial House, and some have since asserted that the breaches of affection that were then made never were reconciled in after life.
And when the Beautiful was not gossiping with her landlady, did she gossip with you as you passed the door?
The journalist below us tells me that gossip about the great sells like Easter buns.
Something of the busyness of his mind can be understood from the gossip that one hears about him in the letters of the time or even from what may be concluded from his own diary.
The poor little creature's peace of mind and innocence might be blasted for ever by the tactless gossip of a servant or an overheard tag of conversation.
She may do exactly as she likes, and the breath of gossip dare not touch her, for she is my wife.
It was current gossip amongst the country folk that in an hour of dissipation he had gambled away his young and blooming eldest daughter to the count, a daring steeple-chase rider, and a man given up to betting and horse-racing.
A rumour from the gossip round neighbouring coffee-tables may have reached her ears, which had become a fixed idea in her pondering brain, and now seemed to her an actual fact.
Is it true what the gossip of the neighbourhood reports--that you--that you are deceiving Ulrich?
She thought of the gossip in everybody's mouth about the flirtations of the fair chatelaine of Uhlenfelde.
